March 23: Scott Macklin, Building Organizational Capacity through Convening Community Stories

April 6: Anita Verna Crofts, Let's Do the Numbers: Metrics and Maturation of Digital Media in Emerging Markets

All lectures will be held from 7:30–9 p.m. in Kane Hall 210.

Buy tickets at the door ($20 each lecture) or contact Beth Koemans, bkoemans@uw.edu for event details or available podcasts and media produced from this series.

SEAchange 2011: From Exxon Valdez to Deepwater Horizon

Telling Tales of Environmental Disaster, Justice, and Recovery

On Saturday, April 2, 2011, reflect on two major U.S. oil spills during SEAchange 2011: From Exxon Valdez to Deepwater Horizon: Telling Tales of Environmental Disaster, Justice, and Recovery. The daylong event at the University of Washington is sponsored by the Department of Communication, the Master of Communication in Digital Media, University Libraries, and the College of the Environment. SEAchange 2011 will feature scientists, fishermen, technologists, chefs and a multitude of interdisciplinary thought leaders to explore how we as a society of modern consumers confront the many environmental ills that all of us have a hand in creating.

You can’t improve your writing without changing your writing process. And this three-hour workshop will take you through every step of the writing process, focusing on take-it-to-the-keyboard advice you can put to work right away. You’ll learn how to develop better ideas, make your information-gathering more efficient, find a focus and draft quickly. You’ll fill your writing toolbox with new tips and tricks. And, best of all, you’ll learn how to write without the pain that moved Gene Fowler to say, “Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”

Learn the essentials of good writing. Bring ideas to write about and something to write with — laptops are fine, but paper and pencil will work just as well.